Sycamore Square to help Christmas Mother

The Sycamore Square Shopping Center will celebrate the season with a holiday open house and join with the Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Christmas Mother to help those in need in our community on Fri., Nov. 16 and Sat., Nov. 17.

Barbara Chapman, the 2007 Chesterfield- Colonial Heights Christmas Mother, will be at RSVP in Sycamore Square on Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. to accept monetary donations to the Christmas Mother. On Saturday, from 1-4 p.m., the Christmas Mother will accept new tricycles, bicycles, bicycle helmets and other safety gear through Sycamore Square's "Bikes for Tykes and Teens" donation drive.

Through November, several Sycamore Square merchants will also host giving trees where customers may choose an ornament listing a toy wish for a child in need. The customer can then purchase the toy and place the toy beneath the giving tree.

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